I've lost count of the accusations and counter-accusations of strawmanism at this point, but anyway: who is it that's assuming "vaccination prevents the spread"? And who is it that's propagating this idea? Everything I've seen in the media about this has almost been at pains to point out that vaccination reduces your chances of catching this or that variant by however many percent. It's not saying "Get vaxxed, become invulnerable."
I've heard antibacterial sprays and the like which claim to kill "99.9% of bacteria" may weaken our immune systems as we end up being exposed to fewer things which keep them hardened.
Well, that's the only time I've ever used the term in this discussion as I make a point of not using it, so you can note down a single use of "strawman" from me.
Not that those are necessarily directly comparable to a respiratory virus, but clearly there have been plenty of diseases which, at least in many countries, have been totally eradicated.
You keep saying that as though I'm arguing things can never be eradicated when what I'm saying is we have to consider the possibility that not everything can be eradicated.
Sounded a lot like you were saying it was definitely impossible and therefore shouldn't even be attempted.
I'm arguing we might have to accept we can't eradicate it after almost two years and God knows how much money attempting to. I wasn't arguing this before that attempt.
Me and versh get on fine even when we disagree about something, because we are mature grown-ups.
I wonder how he would go about this. Probably make a private conversation with everyone but Tea. Seems more efficient than sending out individual messages to everyone but Tea.
